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by awt 17y ago
This is kind of funny. I'm going to just say that this is pretty one-sided. One example is the traffic heat-map. Anyone who has an iPhone in the US has a far superior solution to this problem. In addition, although japan has some awesom
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by awt 17y ago
It is not, though I've tweeted at least one annoyance.
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by awt 17y ago
One thing I've been doing is keeping an annoyance diary. Haven't come up with any great ideas yet though.
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by awt 17y ago
I would really like to see some serious craigslist competitors. There are basic things that craigslist refuses to allow users to do, like keep a list of things they're interested in.
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by awt 17y ago
Do they import cheap food from abroad?
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by awt 17y ago
I believe I read it in Freakanomics that lower crime levels in recent years were due to the defacto legalization of abortion. edit: oops I guess I should read the post (which actually mentions this) before commenting.
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by awt 17y ago
This is an honest question: How does creating more food prevent these problems? Won't populations grow enough to consume all available food? Haven't populations in 3rd world countries exploded since the "green revolution"?
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by awt 17y ago
I can see productivity gains in that more can be done without messing with a server side web framework, so there could be less maintenance.
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by awt 17y ago
As an early riser, I must ask the question, why am I here? Presumably the adaptation is beneficial, or we would have been bread out.
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by awt 17y ago
Doesn't everyone die? If so, isn't the question what diseases take the longest time to cause death, and thus require the most medical expenditure? Wouldn't medical expenses be lower if everyone died of a heart attack at 55? That would ce
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by awt 17y ago
Disclaimer: WSJ's parent company owns Facebook's biggest competitor, Myspace.
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by awt 17y ago
the sun of dawn shows orange in the eastern sky like news dot yc
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by awt 17y ago
Interesting. I would think that they would support the plan so as to be able to offset their current healthcare costs in some way.
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by awt 17y ago
I'm not surprised that Walmart would be advocating the public option, as with most major employers that depend on cheap labor, they'll do anything they can to avoid paying for healthcare.
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by awt 17y ago
I doubt it. None of the articles I've seen in major news sites discuss anything more than that he is against a public option. I would love to see some links to an in depth rebuttal of his points by an op-ed in a major news site.
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by awt 17y ago
If anything I'll shop at Whole Foods more. A public option will continue to hide the costs of healthcare from the people who pay for it (in the form of lower salaries currently, and higher taxes if we get a public plan), and will not bring
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by awt 17y ago
The Lower Peninsula is relatively devoid of Women. San Francisco is not.
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by awt 17y ago
I always sort of wondered if maybe some myths in northern europe about trolls may have originated with the Neanderthals.
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Neanderthals may have been eaten by early humans(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by awt 17y ago|11 comments
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by awt 17y ago
Hadn't heard that one before but it sounds like a good idea :). I think drug enforcement comes up a lot in these arguments because it is currently such a tremendous misallocation of resources. The point will come where we can't afford it
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by awt 17y ago
I would disagree with the argument that there are lower bounds. That precludes the possibility that there are more efficient ways to solve the problems addressed by say, the fire dept. or the police dept. For example, let's say marijuana
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by awt 17y ago
It seems strange that so many people are concerned about bacteria. When was the last time you got sick from bacteria (In the US)? It seems like most infectious disease these days is caused by viruses.
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by awt 17y ago
Hypochondria is pretty insidious. You actually believe you have the disease. It's reality.
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by awt 18y ago
It is an interesting sensation to reread this 7 years later ( 3 of those spent in the SF Bay area). The intro describing Murray's day to day life and circumstances are disturbingly familiar to me.
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by awt 18y ago
it seems that the article ignores the trade off in cost between efficient code and development time.
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by awt 18y ago
Sage advice indeed.
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by awt 18y ago
I think you couldn't give up on markets even if you wanted to. You can pretend there are no markets, ala communism, but you can not eliminate markets unless you invent a limitless supply of energy.
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Bernays and the Roots of Consumer Culture(video.google.com)
14 points by awt 18y ago|1 comments
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by awt 18y ago
I didn't understand object oriented programming until I understood the limits of my brain.
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by awt 18y ago
I find long methods hard to read, especially if they have a lot of conditional logic. Recently, I encountered some long methods that had very generic names, such as "processData." One of the advantages of smaller functions/methods is that

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